Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a night " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Swordfish was despatched to shadow while seven others were readied and armed ( six with torpedoes , one with bombs ) in preparation for a night strike . |
| 2 | He shall stay under the chains for a night and a day , and when he wakes he shall remember nothing else . ’ |
| 3 | At the Dixie Dude Ranch near the town of Bandera in the Texas hill country it was clear that my arrival was to be the excuse for a night out . |
| 4 | The couple would like to care for Leah at home fulltime , but have been told they would be unlikely to receive funding for a night nurse to look after her while they slept . |
| 5 | SATURDAY : Return to cosmopolitan Corfu with time for last-minute shopping and exploring , then join a club resort for a night on the town . |
| 6 | ‘ Christ , ’ breathed Billy , ‘ you were lucky there mate , that was a pretty big un' for a night tide , I heard it was a twenty seven footer . |
| 7 | Residents in Middleton St George were stunned to find most of the new £3,000 roof lying in a field after a night of strong winds last month . |
| 8 | The case involved an alleged sexual attack by an 18-year-old young man on a 16-year-old schoolgirl as she was walking home in the early hours after a night out in the town . |
| 9 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 10 | He invited Lila for a night out on the town . |
| 11 | While at the University of Chicago ( where he met Ulu Grosbard ) , he made his living as a night janitor , hotel desk clerk and delivery truck driver . |
| 12 | Only rarely , as in the case of Ethna the Bride , did these women ever wish to return home to their mere mortal husbands after a night with the Fairy King . |
| 13 | It was something of an anticlimax to wake next morning to pale dawn light after a night of sleep unbroken by nightmares or dreams of any kind . |
| 14 | And in another incident Twenty one year old Henry Skelton fell from a window at New College after a night of drink and drugs . |
| 15 | Ann-Marie , 16 , who was drunk when she took the wheel after a night out at a pub , had been inseparable from her cousin . |
| 16 | The group came from the south of England to see Frankie in A Night At the Music Hall at the town 's Civic Theatre . |
| 17 | For Bill too the Mariners Hall is a welcome altrenative to a night on the street . |
| 18 | Like cats ' eyes on a night road the pale faces beamed at Holly and his adversary through the greyness of the room . |
| 19 | Lorry driver David Hampton , 24 , collapsed in a club on a night out and lost his fight for life in hospital 24 hours later . |
| 20 | And he was in charge of sixteen year-old kids on a night out . |
| 21 | BEFORE : Woody , Mia and some of their kids on a night out . |
| 22 | So I ended up doing a piece on a night out on the streets and tying in this woman Misty and her child . |
| 23 | And he was a central figure on a night of high drama in Belgium as the Lurgan team almost pulled off one of biggest Euro shocks of all time , only losing on penalties after a 1-1 extra-time draw . |
| 24 | But , more importantly , a Smiths gig is merely part of a night out , something to talk about in the pub afterwards . |
| 25 | ( One has taken advantage of a night call ) . |
| 26 | I wonder what kind of a night Trevor had with them on his own ? |
| 27 | There was drill to teach the men to extricate themselves from the several hazards that might be encountered , for the dangers of a night drop over woods or water were obvious . |
| 28 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 29 | Philip Unwin recalled : ‘ The clatter of these milk churns was inseparable from railway stations , suggestive of cheerful bustle by day but strangely mournful in the small hours of a night journey . |
| 30 | A wandering tramp climbed into an unlocked ground floor window for a nights sleep out of the icy wind . |